Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

2.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

3.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

4.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

5.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

6.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

7.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

8.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

9.

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

10.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

11.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

12.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

13.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

15.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

16.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

17.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

18.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

19.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

20.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

21.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

22.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

23.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

24.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

25.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

27.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

28.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

30.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

31.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

32.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

33.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

35.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

36.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

37.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

38.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

39.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

40.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

41.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

42.

Ideas... they have the power